Precedent haunts Contemporary American Theater Festival, but little is notable here by Celia Wren

Allusions to showbiz, and to literature, pepper the fare now at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the annual showcase for recently minted plays in Shepherdstown, W.Va. On the festival's stages, you can find a sequel to Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and a tense-but-wisecracking tete-a-tete between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. You can even find a comedy about bumbling Islamic terrorists who trea…

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